SOCIOLOGIA ECONOMICA

9 CFU - 2° Semester

RITA PALIDDA

Learning Objectives

L'ANALISI SOCIOLOGICA DEI PROCESSI ECONOMICI: FONDAMENTI TEORICI E METODI DI INDAGINE
The course aims to provide students with knowledge of the main theories and methods developed within the framework for the analysis of interdependencies between economic phenomena and social phenomena in order to give students the tools to read and interpret the influence of social, cultural and political economy and vice versa.
LA POLITICAL ECONOMY COMPARATA: DALLO STATO SOCIALE KEYNESIANO AI MODELLI DI CAPITALISMO
The theoretical and methodological own discipline will be applied to the analysis of the main economic and social transformations that have characterized contemporary societies: the transition from liberalism to regulated capitalism, Fordism and the Keynesian welfare state, the flexible production models and the diversity of forms of regulation.
LA NUOVA SOCIOLOGIA ECONOMICA : DAL FORDISMO AI MODELLI PRODUTTIVI FLESSIBILI
The module shows the contribution of the New Economic Sociology in the analysis of the variety of choices of economic actors in the post fordist society, characterized by a different ratio between production and consumption and by the growth of social embeddedness and the relationships between companies. It also will analyze the influence of the mafia on the white economy and the model of social construction of the market that results.

L'ANALISI SOCIOLOGICA DEI PROCESSI ECONOMICI: FONDAMENTI TEORICI E METODI DI INDAGINE
The first module will address the following topics:

- epistemological foundations of the discipline: the economic paradigm and the paradigm of economic sociology
- capitalism and Western civilization (Marx and Weber)
- the social consequences of capitalism (Durkeim and Veblen)
- the Great Depression and the decline of liberal capitalism (Polanyi and Schumpeter)
- the legacy of the classic and the new boundaries between economics and sociology
LA POLITICAL ECONOMY COMPARATA: DALLO STATO SOCIALE KEYNESIANO AI MODELLI DI CAPITALISMO
- The characters of Western capitalism
- The social consequences of capitalism
- The Great Depression and the decline of liberal capitalism
- The welfare state
- The crisis of Fordism and welfare
- Flexible production models
- Industrial districts and the underground economy
- Globalization and varieties of capitalism
LA NUOVA SOCIOLOGIA ECONOMICA : DAL FORDISMO AI MODELLI PRODUTTIVI FLESSIBILI
The new economic sociology

The network theory
The social capital
The new institutionalism
Regulating the economy and organized crime (mafia and entrepreneurship,the social networks of mafia, legal and illegal economy)

L'ANALISI SOCIOLOGICA DEI PROCESSI ECONOMICI: FONDAMENTI TEORICI E METODI DI INDAGINE
C. Trigilia, 2002, Sociologia economica, Il Mulino, Bologna, vol. I, pp. 13- 41; 81-100; 122-142; 184-313; vol. II (edizione 2009), pp.11-58.
LA POLITICAL ECONOMY COMPARATA: DALLO STATO SOCIALE KEYNESIANO AI MODELLI DI CAPITALISMO
C. Trigilia, 2009, Sociologia economica, Il Mulino, vol.II, pp. 119-156; 181-231; 291-336.
M. Ferrera, edizione 2012, L’analisi delle politiche sociali e del welfare state, in M. Ferrera, Le politiche sociali, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 11-54.
LA NUOVA SOCIOLOGIA ECONOMICA : DAL FORDISMO AI MODELLI PRODUTTIVI FLESSIBILI
C. Trigilia, 2009, Sociologia economica, Il Mulino, Bologna, vol. II, pp. 235-288;
R. Palidda, 2016, Imprenditori ed estorsioni: vittime o collusi? in D. Arcidiacono, M. Avola, R. Palidda, Mafia, estorsioni e regolazione dell’economia nell’altra Sicilia, F. Angeli, Milano, pp.142-226

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